• What’s the best way to do a full image backup in Win7?

    Posted on November 11, 2016 at 10:42 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    A recurring question. Any new advice?

    From sainty:

    Hello Woody! Any chance of a quick guide to Windows 7 System Image Back-Up and Restore? Especially to external usb hard drives and usb pen/flash drives.

    Had a few problems with microsoft’s Win7 built-in utility.
    Sector size incompatibility with newer external hard drives (including ones 1TB or less). Doesn’t work with usb pen/flash drives.

    Several failures with both Windows and other system imaging software using new 1TB external drives. Win7 won’t format these hard drives to 512kb sector NTFS. 4K sector NTFS (Default) is the smallest available.

    Win7 will format usb pen/flash drives to 512kb sector NTFS!
    15hrs(!) to Full-Format a 128gb pen/flash drive to 512kb sector NTFS.

    Format successful.

    Only to find that Win7 system image back-up doesn’t work with them!

    Any ideas on how to get the Win7 utility to work?

    Other software to work?

    EaseUs Todo Free?

    Macrium Reflect Free?

    Aomei Backupper Free?

    Now would be a good time for us Win7-ers to “Back It Up Y’All!”. Your usual excellent advice much appreciated by me and “Toshy”, my laptop best buddy!

    Cheers!

    Windows Patches/Security
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